In the Perl programming world there's a notorious mantra, acronymized as TIMTOWTDI(or sometimes TMTOWTDI) and pronounced in its abbreviation as "Tim Towtdi". It stands for:

There Is More Than One Way To Do It

and it encapsulates a deep philosophical choice of Perl's designers.

At the opposite end of the spectrum Awk, Scheme, and some other computer languages take as their polestarorthogonality, the mathematical idea that every linguistic feature should be independent of every other feature, so that each component makes the maximum possible contribution to the result. No redundancy, in other words. One might summarize this school of thought as TSBOOWTDI: